Local golf notes: Former AU star makes cut in first PGA Tour event

3:25 AM,
Feb. 19, 2013

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There was a very nice update this past week to the saga of former Auburn golfer Blayne Barber and his efforts to play professionally.

His travails late last year in trying to qualify for the PGA Tour are well documented. Basically, after completing one of the most amazing college careers of any Auburn golfer, he had advanced to the second stage of PGA Tour qualifying after finishing in fourth with a 14-under 274 at a first-stage tournament at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga.

His score - even with a self-imposed penalty stroke - was comfortably among the best of the Callaway Gardens ...